[Gllug] Sendmail queue

[Alistair Mann]

Thus spaketh John Edwards on Saturday 29 January 2005 12:18:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 11:58:55AM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > Due a temporary breakdown in my mail server yesterday I have a long
> > queue of deferred messages. How can I force sendmail to attempt to
> > resend them now everything appears to be up and running again?
> > --
> > Adrian McMenamin <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk>
>
> It's been a long time since I've had to use sendmail, but I
> think "sendmail -q" will force the redelivery of all queued
> email. Check the manpages first of course.

sendmail -qf

If a message can't be delivered, it attracts an associated redelivery timeout 
(try again 5 mins, 1hr, 3 hrs etc etc) If the timeout hasn't expired, the 
queue runner will not attempt to deliver it. The additional 'f' forces the 
queue runner to attempt delivery regardless.
-- 
Alistair

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